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VICE for Linux broken by libx11 security update [message #144408] Mon, 09 April 2007 07:46 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: Eregil

Since a libx11 security update, which entered Debian a few days ago,
vice displays a black screen instead of the emulated screen, due to a
failure with newly introduced input sanitizing in XCreateImage(). I hear
this is not Debian specific, so if you are affected (or just want to
help out), please help test the patch I sent the Debian maintainer.

Details and proposed patch (note that this is for version 1.20):

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418295

The same patch *should* work for 1.21 or, at most, require a very small
adaptation, but I haven't gotten around to trying it with 1.21 yet
because that version is problematic for me under KDE. I'll follow up if
I get to it later.

As for what the security patch to libx11 was about, the quickest link I
can provide is the related Debian BTS entry:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=414045

posted to comp.emulators.cbm and mailed to vice-devel.
Re: VICE for Linux broken by libx11 security update [message #144420 is a reply to message #144408] Sun, 15 April 2007 08:18 Go to previous message
Groepaz is currently offline  Groepaz
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Eregil wrote:

> Since a libx11 security update, which entered Debian a few days ago,
> vice displays a black screen instead of the emulated screen, due to a
> failure with newly introduced input sanitizing in XCreateImage(). I hear
> this is not Debian specific, so if you are affected (or just want to
> help out), please help test the patch I sent the Debian maintainer.

i can confirm the problem, and the patch solves it (gentoo here)

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